2023 年广西考研英语一真题及答案
一、完形填空
考察了丝绸之路上的驿站话题,选项没有什么特别难的词或者短语,文章逻辑也很好懂,
考到了并列逻辑和举例逻辑,只要考生认真读题应该拿到不错的分数
Use of English
Caravanserais were roadside inns that were built along the Silk Road in areas
including
China, North Africa and the Middle East. They were typically __1__ outside the
walls of a city or village and were usually funded by governments of __2__.
This word “Caravanserais” is a __3__ of the Persian word “karvan”, which
means a group of travellers or a caravan, and seray, a palace or enclosed building.
The Perm caravan was used to __4__ groups of people who travelled together across
the ancient network for safety reasons, __5__ merchants, travellers or pilgrims.
From the 10th century onwards, as merchant and travel routes become more
developed, the __6__ of the Caravanserais increased and they served as a safe place
for people to rest at night. Travellers on the Silk Road __7__ possibility of being
attacked by thieves or being __8__ to extreme conditions. For this reason,
Caravanserais were strategically placed __9__ they could be reached in a day’s
travel time.
Caravanserais served as an informal __10__ point for the various people who
travelled the Silk Road. __11__, those structures became important centers for
culture __12__ and interaction, with travelers sharing their cultures, ideas and
beliefs, __13__ talking knowledge with them, greatly __14__ the development of
several civilizations.
Caravanserais were also an important marketplace for commodities and __15__ in
the trade of goods along the Silk Road. __16__, it was frequently the first stop
merchants looking to sell their wares and __17__ supplies for their own journeys.
It is __18__ that around 120000 to 15000 caravanserais were built along the Silk
Road, __19__ only about 3000 are known to remain today, many of which are in __20__.
1、答案:C. located
2、答案:A. privately
3、答案:D. combination
4、答案:C. describe
5、答案:C. such as
6、答案:A. construction
7、答案:B. faced
8、答案:B. subjected
9、答案:A. so that
10、答案:D. meeting
11、答案:D. As a result
12、答案:C. exchange
13、答案:C. as well as
14、 答案:B. influencing
15、答案:A. aided
16、答案:B. indeed
17、答案:D. stock up on
18、答案:A. believed
19、答案:D. although
20、答案:A. ruins
二、阅读理解
Text 1
The weather in Texas may have cooled since the recent extreme heat, but the
temperature will be high at the State Board of Education meeting in Austin this month
as officials debate how climate change is taught in Texas schools.
Pat Hardy, who sympathized with views of the energy sector, is resisting the
proposed change to science standards for pre-teen pupils. These would emphasise the
primacy of human activity in recent climate change and encourage discussion of
mitigation measures.
Most scientists and experts sharply dispute Hardy’s views. “They casually
dismiss the career work of scholars and scientists as just another misguided
opinion.” says Dan Quinn, senior communications strategist at the Texas Freedom
Network, a non-profit group that monitors public education,“What millions of Texas
kids learn in their public schools is determined too often by the political ideology
of partisan board members, rather than facts and sound scholarship.”
Such debate reflects fierce discussion discussions across the US and around the
world, as researchers, policymakers, teachers and students step up demands for a
greater focus on teaching about the facts of climate change in schools.
A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit
group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the
country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states
a grade B+ or higher. Among the 10 worst performers were some of the most populous
states, including Texas, which was given the lowest grade (F) and has a
disproportionate influence because its textbooks are widely sold elsewhere.
Glenn Branch, the centre’s deputy director, cautions that setting state-level
science standards is only one limited benchmark in a country that decentralises
decisions to local school boards. Even if a state is considered a high performer
in its science standards, “that does not mean it will be taught”, he says.
Another issue is that while climate change is well integrated into some subjects
and at some ages — such as earth and space sciences in high schools — it is not
as well represented in curricula for younger children and in subjects that are more
widely taught, such as biology and chemistry. It is also less prominent in many social
studies courses.
Branch points out that, even if a growing number of official guidelines and
textbooks reflect scientific consensus on climate change, unofficial educational
materials that convey more slanted perspectives are being distributed to teachers.
They include materials sponsored by libertarian think-tanks and energy industry
associations.
21. In paragraph 1, the weather in Texas is mentioned to
答案:C. indicate the atmosphere at the board meeting
22. What does Quinn think of Hardy?
答案:B. She denies the value of scientific work.
23. The study mentioned in Paragraph 5
答案:A. Climate education is insufficient at state public school
24. According to Branch, state-level science standards in the US
答案:C. have limited influence
25. It is implied in the last paragraph that climate change teaching in some
schools
答案:D. can be swayed by external forces
Text 2
Communities throughout the region have been attempting to regulate short-term
rentals since sites like Airbnb took off in the 2010s. Now, with record-high home
prices and historically low inventory, there’s an increased urgency in such
regulation, particularly among those who worry that developers will come in and buy
up swaths of housing to flip for a fortune on the short-term rental market.
In New Hampshire, where the rental vacancy rate has dropped below 1 percent,
housing advocates fear unchecked short-term rentals will put further pressure on
an already strained market. The state Legislature recently voted against a bill that
would’ve made it illegal for towns to create legislation restricting short-term
rentals.
“We are at a crisis level on the supply of rental housing, so anytime you’re
taking the tool out of the toolkit for communities to address this, you’re
potentially taking supply off the market that’s already incredibly stressed,’’
said Nick Taylor, executive director of the Workforce Housing Coalition of the
Greater Seacoast. Without enough affordable housing in southern New Hampshire towns,
“employers are having a hard time attracting employees, and workers are having a
hard time finding a place to live,’’ Taylor said.
However, short-term rentals also provide housing for tourists, a crucial part
of the economies in places like Nantucket, Cape Cod, or the towns that make up New
Hampshire’s Seacoast and Lakes Region, pointed out Ryan Castle, CEO of the Cape
Cod & Islands Association of Realtors. “A lot of workers are servicing the tourist
industry, and the tourism industry is serviced by those people coming in short
term,’’ Castle said, “and so it’s a cyclical effect.’’
Short-term rentals themselves are not the crux of the issue, said Keren Horn,
an affordable housing policy expert at the University of Massachusetts Boston. “I
think individuals being able to rent out their second home is a good thing. If it’s
their vacation home anyway, and it’s just empty, why can’t you make money off
it?’’ Horn said. Issues arise, however, when developers attempt to create
large-scale short-term rental facilities — de facto hotels — to bypass taxes and
regulations. “I think the question is, shouldn’t a developer who’s really
building a hotel, but disguising it as not a hotel, be treated and taxed and regulated
like a hotel?’’ Horn said.
At the end of 2018, Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill to rein in those
potential investor-buyers. “The bill requires every rental host to register with
the state, mandates they carry insurance, and opens the potential for local taxes
on top of a new state levy,’’ the Globe reported. Boston took things even further,
limiting who is authorized to rent out their home, and requiring renters to register
with the city’s Inspectional Services Department.
Horn said similar registration requirements could benefit other struggling
cities and towns. The only way to solve the issue, however, is by creating more
housing. “If we want to make a change in the housing market, the main one is we
have to build a lot more.’’
26.Which of the following is true of New England?
答案:A. Its housing supply is at a very low level.
27.The bill mentioned in the Paragraph 2 was intended to?
答案:D. allow a free short-term rental market.
28 . Compared with Castle, Tailor is more likely to support?
答案:B in increase in a affordable housing
29. What does Horn emphasize in paragraph 3?
答案:C the necessity to stop developers from evading taxes.
30. Horn holds that imposing registration requirements is
答案:D an inadequate solution.
Text 3
If you’re heading for your nearest branch of Waterstones in search of the
Duchess of Sussex’s new children’s book The Bench, you might have to be prepared
to hunt around a bit; the same may be true of The President's Daughter, the new
thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Both of these books are published next
week by Penguin Random House, a company currently involved in a stand-off with
Waterstones.
The problem began late last year, when Penguin Random House confirmed that it
had introduced a credit limit with Waterstones “at a very significant level”. The
trade magazine The Bookseller reported that Waterstones branch managers were being
told to remove PRH books from prominent areas such as tables, display spaces and
windows, and were “quietly retiring them to their relevant sections”.
PRH declined to comment on the issue, but a spokesperson for Waterstones told
me: “Waterstones are currently operating with reduced credit terms from PRH, the
only publisher in the UK to place any limitations on our ability to trade. We are
not boycotting PRH titles but we are doing our utmost to ensure that availability
for customers remains good despite the lower overall levels of stock. We do this
generally by giving their titles less prominent positioning within our bookshops.
“We are hopeful with our shops now open again that normality will return and that
we will be allowed to buy appropriately. Certainly, our shops are exceptionally busy
and book sales are very strong. The sales for our May Books of the Month surpassed
any month since 2018.”
In the meantime, PRH authors have been the losers - as have customers, who might
expect the new titles from the country’s biggest publisher to be prominently
displayed by its biggest book retailer. Big-name PRH authors may suffer a bit, but
it’s those mid-list authors, who normally rely on Waterstones staff’s passion for
promoting books by lesser-known writers, who will be praying for an end to the
dispute.
It comes at a time when authors are already worried about the consequences of
the proposed merger between PRH and another big publisher, Simon & Schuster - the
reduction in the number of unaligned UK publishers is likely to lead to fewer bidding
wars, lower advances, and more conformity in terms of what is published. And one
wonders if PRH would have been confident enough to deal with Waterstones in the way
it has if it weren’t quite such a big company (it was formed with the merger of
Penguin and Random House in 2013) and likely to get bigger.
“This is all part of a wider change towards concentration of power and cartels.
Literary agencies are getting bigger to have the clout to negotiate better terms
with publishers, publishers consolidating to deal with Amazon,” says Lownie. “The
publishing industry talks about diversity in terms of authors and staff but it also
needs a plurality of ways of delivering intellectual contact, choice and different
voices. After all, many of the most interesting books in recent years have come from
small publishers.”
We shall see whether that plurality is a casualty of the current need among
publishers to be big enough to take on all-comers.
31. the author mentions two books in the paragraph 1 to present ____
答案:A. an ongoing conflict
32. Why did Waterstones shops retire PRH books to their relevant sections?
答案:C. to respond to PRH's business move
33. What message did the spokesman of Waterstones seem to convey?
答案:A. their customers remain royal
34. What can be one consequence of the current dispute?
答案:A Sales of books by mid-list PRH writers fall off considerably
35. Which of the following statements best represents Lownie`s view?
答案:D The merger of publishers is a worrying trend
Text 4
Scientific papers are the recordkeepers of progress in research. Each year
researchers publish millions of papers in more than 30,000 journals. The scientific
community measures the quality of those papers in a number of ways, including the
perceived quality of the journal (as reflected by the title’s impact factor) and
the number of citations a specific paper accumulates. The careers of scientists and
the reputation of their institutions depend on the number and prestige of the papers
they produce, but even more so on the citations attracted by these papers.
In recent years, there have been several episodes of scientific fraud, including
completely made-up data, massaged or doctored figures, multiple publications of the
same data, theft of complete articles, plagiarism of text, and self-plagiarism. And
some scientists have come up with another way to artificially boost the number of
citations to their work.
Citation cartels, where journals, authors, and institutions conspire to inflate
citation numbers, have existed for a long time. In 2016, researchers developed an
algorithm to recognize suspicious citation patterns, including groups of authors
that disproportionately cite one another and groups of journals that cite each other
frequently to increase the impact factors of their publications. Recently, I came